MedXpert

Best-in-Class Cardiovascular Resource Center

MedXpert is an edited and reviewed warehouse of educational materials, informational articles, proforma analyses, policies and procedures, and other tools—all contributed by industry experts, member programs, and corporate partners. The resources found in MedXpert are focused on the optimization of all program areas and cover a range of topics as listed below.

The 21st Century Cures Act includes a number of provisions that push for greater interoperability, adoption of electronic health records and support for human services programs. This session will cover the recent ONC’s “Top Priorities” related to The 21st Century Cures Act focusing on the interoperability portion of the law and what attendees can do to educate their programs on these changes.

Learn how Spectrum Health focused on and elevated its A Fib program by creating pathways from the ER to the practice, a fast track for sleep referrals, provider guidelines in the clinic for those patients seen by Advanced Practice Providers, patient education, and high-risk medication clinics (surveillance monitoring).

Dr. Huang and Ms. Larson will share Providence Heart’s journey over the last few years, discussing successes and challenges, since being recognized as a PCSP leader. They will share their data in the improvement of patient access, care coordination, patient satisfaction, productivity, and reducing variable costs.

There are those who would sum up clinical variation this way: “We’ll all get along if everyone does things my way.” In an effort to find solutions, this session will focus on the impact of clinical variation at the system, hospital/ practice, and individual level on clinical outcome, cost of care, efficiency, and care team design. Specific examples, case studies, and tools to address controlling variation will be discussed.

CHI Health and the affiliated CHI Clinic have focused on call consolidation from both the physician and cath lab staffing sides. Through the evolutionary process, there have been many successes and challenges. This deep dive into the details will explore lessons learned and highlight what has ultimately been a significant improvement in efficiency and optimization efforts.

EMBRACE offers a bipartisan method to accomplish basic universal health coverage while eliminating some of the politically incendiary programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA. Further, it continues participation of for-profit health insurance companies with some “free-market” features without compromising the patient’s health or adversely affecting the publicly funded system. Dr. Lancaster will explain the need for a new health care system and the possible effects of EMBRACE on patients, doctors, hospitals, businesses, and government.

With a focus on one of the top concerns identified by MedAxiom’s CV health care leaders, Dr. Lee will discuss the significant investment UPMC has made in data systems to help UPMC move quickly and efficiently from volume- to value-based medicine.

Cardiology Advocacy Alliance (CAA) has been working aggressively in Washington DC on the multiplepriorities critical to the cardiovascular community. This session will review the latest developments in Washington, both regulatory and legal, that impact CV health care.

In this webinar, we give an introduction to what Risk Adjustment Coding is and cover the basics of Risk Adjustment Coding and Documentation including the History of Risk Adjustment Coding, The different Risk Adjustment models, HCCs familiar to Cardiology, and Key documentation points for ICD-10 coding.